I went to a luncheon with Newt Gingrich today!

[saracat]

It was a symposium on Heath care. I won't bore anyone with the details but suffice it to say I didn't agree. But I do want to say that A neurologist nailed Newt on the Schiavo issue, and Newy made an ass out of himself by retaliating that Michael Schiavo had a "common law" wife and therefore was "morally" unsuitable to make this decision. I had to be held back. The man who was screwing his intern and divorced his wife as she lay dying of cancer in the hospital, is judging Shiavo?
The neurologist said that they had no right to throw out all the medical evidence to reach an "emotional " conclusion. Newt said he wasn't a neurologist and couldn't know . The neurologist replied "thats right and that is why you shouldn't decide".
And BTW, Edwards speech the night before made Newt look like an imbecile!

[madmom]

1. my husband said he heard once that the newt...

while teaching (college) was once caught "selling" good grades for sex. Is this true ? anyone else ever hear this?

[MADem]

12. Well, he is on his third wife

...and she was 'doing the Monica' with him whilst he was excoriating Clinton. Wife #2 took him to the CLEANERS...her lawyers pressed for massive, guaranteed cash in exchange for Calista (#3) not having to describe, in specific, excruciating detail, the acts that she and Newt committed (many in his House office--what's that crap on the copier????). Had he not agreed, that testimony would have made Monica's little efforts seem tame by comparison.

Ironically, Newt's STAFF had a hand in busting him. They liked #2, she was very sweet to them, baked cookies, worried about their health. They did not care for Calista, who wore her paramour's rank and didn't work or play well with others in the office. And they were "true believers" in the creepy Conservative cause, and the hypocrisy bothered them--so they ratted the boy out, some of them!

[MO_Dem]

2. Hope ya had lots of antacid with ya!

Just thinking about Newtie makes me want to reach for Rolaids!

[Robbien]

3. Thanks, its good to hear the RW talking points do get confronted

in some manner of a public forum.

Did the audience react for or against this exchange?

[saracat]

4. The audience mostly repug, seemed to support the Doctor. Interesting..

Doctors in general seem to be furious with the repukes. I hope someone notices this and uses it!

[blm]

21. You think the Repubs in the audience noticed the STARK contrast in the

decency and intellectual bearing of Edwards and the meanspirited sharpness of Gingrich?

[saracat]

22. Well, the greed and selfishness were obvious! He also said most people who

don't have health insirnace are well to do yuppies who want to "cheat" the sysrtem. And how do you think he came up with that?

[rodeodance]

5. the sad thing is that Newt does not know or care how stupid he is/sounds

[me b zola]

8. Sounds like the entire con agenda...

...No matter how much you know we are lying, we'll keep the MSM drumbeat so that eventually you will see things our way. Moron for POTUS? We'll beat it into your head that the freak is some kind of Saint---then who are you to question how flippin stupid he sounds? :sarcasm:

[ebayfool]

6. Gut reaction when I saw your thread title - Oh no, poor Saracat!

Good to see that someone called bullsh*t on him, but ... poor saracat!

[saracat]

7. Thank you! But it was cathartic really.

He really gave me a reason to hate him. I know now I was right, and I feel good about it! It was fascinating to watch someone lie, completely without conscience , right to your face. And to know that he knows it. Gag!

[tsuki]

9. He also divorced #2 when he found out she had MS. Then

married #3. Sought an annulment from the Catholic Church for #2 and got it.

[MADem]

13. Number Two divorced him, see my post above

You may be thinking of Number One--he served her with divorce papers while she was hooked up for chemotherapy for cancer.

[tsuki]

16. He pulled the same stunt on his second shortly after he learned she had MS

http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/99_columns/081799.htm

This time, his approach was less personal. Marianne Gingrich told the Washington Post that she was informed of the affair and the request for a divorce last May in a telephone call from Newt to her mother's home, where she was visiting.

After first expressing best wishes to his mother-in-law on her 84th birthday, he asked to speak to his wife, who was soon reduced to tears by Newt's news.

"I said, 'Marianne, what's wrong?' " Gingrich's mother-in-law told the Washington Post, and she said her daughter replied, "He doesn't want me as his wife anymore." According to the Post: "There was a second jolt soon afterward. Newt Gingrich, now 56, informed his wife that he was having an affair with a congressional aide, a woman 23 years his junior."

<snip>

Only she was smarter. She rushed to court first.

[MADem]

17. Wow, fascinating backstory!

Of course, #2 did have the experience of being the "Calista" to #1. Perhaps because of that, she got the best damn legal team on it for a preemptive strike!

[tsuki]

19. When I heard that he was thinking about running for Prez, I started

researching him in detail, from the blow jobs he got at his kid's sports mets to the money Murdock paid him for his "book." Pure poison this guy is.

[many a good man]

10. Take two showers when you get home

Newt's oiliness contaminates the entire room. I hear after shaking hands with him it can take several months to finally wash clean.

"Newt said he wasn't a neurologist and couldn't know."

Yeah, and he's not an historian, he's not an economist, he's not a health care expert, he's not a technology expert...

I thought the public booed Newt off the stage years ago. Why in the world does the MSM give him credibility ?

[WearyOne]

15. just a creep that's all

[DebJ]

11. Newt has eaten many times at a 4 star restaurant my daughter

worked in, in Alexandria, Va. She was a hostess. The waiters would come rushing up and say Don't you DARE place him at MY table...because he didn't tip enough to make it worth the effort.

[saracat]

18. Makes sense.As part of his speech, he was most instructive in getting

cheap air fare! I wondered why!

[OneTwentyoNine]

14. How does anyone eat with Gingrich in the room?

Did he start dragging out his old tired "Contract with America" bullshit?

Thats OK though,when Dole ran against Clinton all Dems had to do was paint Dole and Gingrich as good buddies,which they were and thats all it took.

[colonel odis]

20. after being dumped, wife #1 had to ask their church for help

paying bills. apparently, he rarely ever paid his child support. wife #1 was also his high school math teacher.

the fact that he is even a public figure amazes me. most people would be too ashamed, given the level of his hypocrisy.

sounds like he needs a pie in the face.